On Jun 23, 2:02*pm, Michael Ash wrote:
In rec.aviation.student Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

Certainly *you do not expect the sky to remain off-limits to average
drivers forever. It is very likely, eventually, that something will
have changed to allow them into the sky.

Why not? I expect this. If people ever venture into the sky en masse it
will be in fully automated machines with all of the humans as mere
passengers.

The idea of millions of flying cars being driven around under the control
of average joes is a nice vision but I have no expectation that it will
ever happen.

Small aircraft under human control were, are, and will remain a travel
tool for wealthy people and recreation for the merely well-off.

I wonder if a similar statement was made about automobiles in 1900.

After all, cars can be dangerous too.

We must remember that there was a time when cars were being used
regularly while parents still took time to teach their children how to
ride horses with the expectation that horse-and-buggy would be the
primary means of travel for the foreseable future.

-Le Chaud Lapin-